Not Fade Away has been playing a bit under the radar, but still has to be considered as a film being released during the heart of award season. In addition to the fact that it is the first film written and directed by David Chase, the mind that brought us great television programming like The Sopranos, Northern Exposure and The Rockford Files...

David Chase has already left an impressive legacy in television medium. Beginning with The Rockford Files from 1976 to 1980 to Northern Exposure from 1993 to 1995 and leading to The Sopranos from 1999 to 2007, he has left a mark on the small screen that will not soon be forgotten. But, strangely, he has never found time in his career to direct or produce a feature film...

Like The Sopranos, Not Fade Away, the debut feature of the series' creator David Chase, is set deep in New Jersey with the influence/threat of New York City always looming. But rather than centering the narrative on a web of modern-day gangsters, he follows a batch of 1960s suburban teens who share the Sopranos' love of four-letter words, as they attempt to carve an identity separate from their parents

The upcoming drama reunites Chase with Sopranos' star James Gandolfini, but centers on a group of New Jersey teens who are inspired to form a rock band of their own after seeing the Rolling Stones perform on TV in 1964. But as they attempt to achieve their dream of rock stardom they must confront the struggles of growing up within the shifting social norms of the 1960s.

Gandolfini, obviously not really of rock star age, plays a parent on the wrong side of the generation gap "who has worked hard to give his son everything he didnít have but now feels some jealousy about the free-wheeling life†the boy gets to experience." Basically it's James Gandolfini playing a regular guy, not the terrifying badass we're used to; that enough is reason to start the countdown